I finished another book today, “Islam between East and West” by Alija Izetbegović former president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He tries to depict the essence of Islam on perspective of humanity. Here the writer shows the contrast between materialistic life and spiritual life and the most obvious repercussion that human beings are composed of both of these. We cannot be fully materialistic like prey and predator in wild life again we cannot be angel as well. We need someone to condemn, we need something to pray.
This is the age of mediocre; all things are approaching towards middle compromising few ideologies from both extreme. Writer shows how communism accounts spiritual values and catholicism values materialistic life, both of them approaching middle. And finally he tries to say Islam is the composed of both of these from the very beginning of its history. He tries to show the evolution of Catholicism towards Islam and the same to Communism.
Another most remarkable thing that I found interesting is his definition about humanity. Humanity is something that helps human being to decide against himself which is merely impossible for a machine or an animal. And there are few other essays on Culture, Civilization, idealism and so on. Overall I suggest it as a good read.
Hey!!! That's amazing. First, Feynman then Gibran then Alia, I thought nobody gives a damn about them(except Feynman ofcourse). It is good to see you and I share a lot. :)
ReplyDeleteAlia has another famous book, The Islamic Declaration. I heard he discusses there about a secular islamic state! He is awesome.